Provenance
an undescribed portrait of Carel Fabritius was in the inventory of Catharina Scharckens, widow of Cornelis Smout, Amsterdam, 7 December 1654
bought in Bruges from 'Mareneff' (presumably Marneffe) by George Rimington of Tynefield, Penrith
the purchase is said to have been made about 1824 and the picture brought to Tynefield about 1830
a 'guerrier au teint basane' by `Fabricius', without initial, was in the P. J. de Marneffe sale, Brussels, 24 sqq. May 1830, nr. 118, bought by Burton, but this was of completely different size according to the sale catalogue
passed to George Rimmington's youngest son, Reginald
by descent to his wife who bequeathed it to her niece, who in turn left it, c.1910, to her son, T. A. Brewerton of Manchester
T. A. Brewerton sale, London, 12 December 1924, nr. 135, bought for the National Gallery
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